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Washington’s Ebola plan creates global sticker shock

A strain of the Ebola virus has killed 5,000 people in a handful of West African nations with Mali the latest addition to the list. Meanwhile, an Ebola strain has spread to the United States, Western Europe and possibly elsewhere. Turning the fear factor into a pandemic greater than Ebola itself, the Washington Post on October 25th, published an article suggesting that Russia and the Soviet Union have manufactured “Ebola” ...

27.10.2014

BRICS and Washington's social pivot to India

... Bharitiya Janata Party (BJP), served as chief minister of Gujarat state until May of this year (13 years). The Obama administration recently removed Modi’s name from the state department “blacklist” that prohibited his entry into the United States over the incident involving the alleged massacre of Muslims, and Sikhs that transpired during his watch. It was a move of convenience similar to Obama’s effort to hold up the conviction of his friend and ally Kenyan president Uhuru ...

02.10.2014

The ISIS Crisis and the faiblesse of global governance

An American and two Russians have landed safely in Kazakhstan after 5 ½ months in space… and to think there is no cooperation toward a more peaceful world between the United States and Russia. Meanwhile, private citizens of Qatar, and other friends of the United States, have been financing Hamas and ISIS. Now, as Washington prepares to launch a new campaign to destroy global terror networks an American website with ...

11.09.2014

Obama's "Scare Force" Targets BRICS

... Chechen and Azeri extremists have been involved with the military components of Washington’s proxy regime in Ukraine have inflamed fears of a full blown front size ground and air war. For now the sanctions regimes being imposed by major powers-- the United States and its NATO allies, and Russia-- has put food exporters in the crossfire of what is destined to become a long and costly episode of a different kind of war, economic warfare. BRICS member Brazil, and Argentina, another major food exporter ...

11.08.2014

American sports diplomacy hit by drug investigation

... “quiet investigation” Several media sources have reported that the investigation is being conducted “quietly” to limit media attention that might drive up the final cost of a settlement. Books and articles published in the United States have long charged that the NFL maintains a security staff whose mission is to keep substance abuse issues including dealing drugs, inside the “NFL family” and outside the legal system that, in theory, prosecutes the average citizen....

27.07.2014

Islam, the hidden “I” in BRICS

... acting in concert with them, on its own. On the surface doing business with Islamic or "Arab" nations has the look and feel of “business to business” activity. But when Islamic states deal with BRICS member nations, as with the United States and the European Union, it is never a sure thing that the BRICS nation is dealing with an Islamic state or the “Nation of Islam” and all the unpleasant baggage that comes with that. In this context, the slow moving BRICS are ...

14.07.2014

Can Russia help save Peronist Argentina from itself?

... In a recent visit to Moscow Argentine foreign minister Hector Timerman held discussions with counterpart Sergey Lavrov, who confirmed the Kremlin's support for Argentina's position regarding the disputed Malvinas-Falkland islands. The United States does not support Argentina's claim. With nearly 30 years of experience as an author, lawyer, scholar and public official who follows Argentine affairs, Poneman also reached out to an emerging generation of students and faculty ...

30.06.2014

Pre-Sports Diplomacy. Hockey broke the ice in the Cold War

Before the FIFA World Cup was given “sports diplomacy” status by pundits, academics and some among its own leadership, the ice hockey rivalry between the Soviet Union, the United States and Canada that developed during the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, California proved that competitive athletics could capture the hearts and minds of adversaries who were threatening each other with nuclear war. Thanks to hockey,...

27.06.2014

Yes we can. Brazil confident about World Cup security

... “federal mixture” of military and civilian organizations that are providing around 50,000 personnel to provide it. Cardozo revealed that the Federal Police are operating a center for international police integration which receives input from United States agencies, and many other nations. An information booklet provided by the ministry of defense noted that the government is using drones as part of the security effort. In addition, a cybercrime unit is operating to defeat efforts by global ...

05.06.2014

Containment's Last Hurrah

... connection with Ukraine and Crimea.. In uncharacteristic posturing that belies his statesmanlike (statesperson) image, U.S. secretary of state John Kerry has called the Russian media platform “RT” a “propaganda bullhorn.” But the United States has a couple of those too. Kerry, like his boss, has been calling for tougher sanctions if the Kremlin doesn’t concede to U.S. demands and pull back from Ukraine. Diplomats, economists and western media sources claim that US-led ...

27.04.2014
 

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